Appellate court clarifies “sole proximate cause”
By Brian O. Watson
Bench and Bar,
August 2018
The appellate court recently made clear in Douglas v. Arlington Park Racecourse that the sole proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury may be something—other than the defendant—no matter what their status may be in the lawsuit and no matter how many they may be in number.
The Seventh Circuit rejects plaintiff’s cancer causation theory
By Robert H. Riley & Brian O. Watson
Bench and Bar,
September 2017
The Seventh Circuit recently rejected the plaintiff’s expert’s causation theory that “each and every exposure” or the “cumulative exposure” may satisfy the plaintiff’s causation burden.
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